Monitoring and optimizing datacenter spending and resource utilization can help to reduce costs and improve efficiency. By tracking and analyzing datacenter usage, you can identify areas where you are overspending or underutilizing the resources
Why this matters: unlike cloud spend, datacenter cost doesn't come from a provider invoice you can just read off — it comes from your own hardware, which means overspending shows up as underutilized capacity (racks and hosts running well below what they're provisioned for) rather than a line item you can flag. These dashboards make that utilization visible, which is the only way to catch it.